00:44 - ApothecaryI never saw the appeal of Pallbearer. Ok music, but not worth the enormous praise they've been getting by some. Didn't ever impress me much on album and when I saw them live with Deafheaven I wasn't really won over either

It's nearly been a year since I've started listening to metal. I've listened to many albums since then, but it took me some time to get used to some genres, band ideologies and listening to full albums. This is a list of albums that had a big impact on the way I perceive metal. It is NOT a favorite album list as I don't still frequently listen to some of the listed albums anymore. Ordered by impact level.

You reviewed Enslaved's Frost and scored it a 9.2 but it didn't make the list?

Those albums are awe-inducing. To me, all the stuff in the list is 9.5+ material. Frost didn't offer anything new or shape up my listening habits. It's a decent effort... But it didn't affect the way I perceive metal.

You reviewed Enslaved's Frost and scored it a 9.2 but it didn't make the list?

hes average rating is 8.73

That is because I only rate the albums I have in my collection, and I only keep the albums that I really like. For example,if I download an album that I would rate with a 5 or lower, I instantly delete it after 2-3 listens.

----In that case, man is only air as well.

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05.05.2012 - 02:23

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I could have sworn you said you had been listening to metal for a year, a year ago.

I could have sworn you said you had been listening to Metallica, Iron Maiden, Killswitch Engage and Judas Priest SONGS for a year, a year ago.

Fixed.

And alls those songs by those bands are metal

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05.05.2012 - 15:29

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How can something have a big impact on you yet you totally stop caring about it? Even in a whole lifetime that's a difficult proposition. To be affected by something and to discard it in the space of only a year screams "tryhard" in the biggest possible way. I don't listen to Korn much these days but I still care about its impact. According to you some of these albums have left no emotional connection which makes me think you're just using them as bridges to reach that perfect "cool and knowledgeable" state (which explains how you've become an "expert" on black and death metal in only a year).

I'm guessing in a couple of months time black metal will be behind you and the next iteration of this list will feature the top 25 cool and elite doom albums that have "affected" you and will be "awe-inducing" despite you "not caring" about them.

Listening for one year yet you have a list this long and varied? Seems like you've crammed for a test and desperately spewed out answers. I love your enthusiam but my friend, before you annoint an album "having a big impact" or "life changing" put some more time in the craft first.

I'm with Joe. You seem to listen to music to fit in and not because you like what you're listening to. In less than a year you've managed to go from hating pretty much anything extreme to acting as if you're an encyclopedia of black metal. All of this has been a matter of changing your image as an online persona as opposed to changing because you naturally "evolved" in terms of your listening habits.

I for one find it laughable when I recommend you something (whether directly or inadvertently) and then find you recommending it to everyone in less than 24 hours as if you just discovered some unheard of gem, and then seeing it on a list of albums that are apparently life-changing but not memorable. This list is pretty much a reflection of your try-hard listening habits.

That is because I only rate the albums I have in my collection, and I only keep the albums that I really like. For example,if I download an album that I would rate with a 5 or lower, I instantly delete it after 2-3 listens.

that is a rather foolish practice, given how much your tastes have evolved in the space of a year... in less than a month you went from liking new IMmortal only and hating their older, more raw releases, to loving to the point the sloppy BITN made this list.

given your progression, you'll be listening to doom and other metal genres you've avoided before the end of the year, and in two years time you'll be out of metal completely.

How can something have a big impact on you yet you totally stop caring about it? Even in a whole lifetime that's a difficult proposition. To be affected by something and to discard it in the space of only a year screams "tryhard" in the biggest possible way. I don't listen to Korn much these days but I still care about its impact. According to you some of these albums have left no emotional connection which makes me think you're just using them as bridges to reach that perfect "cool and knowledgeable" state (which explains how you've become an "expert" on black and death metal in only a year).

I'm guessing in a couple of months time black metal will be behind you and the next iteration of this list will feature the top 25 cool and elite doom albums that have "affected" you and will be "awe-inducing" despite you "not caring" about them.

Well, I DO care. I think "not listen very often anymore" would have been more appropriate. Anyway, even though there is some stuff that gives me eargasms, I agree to some extent that my listening is tryhardy. There are albums which I listen to for more than 7 times, and I end up not remembering a thing from. Which I hate.

Listening for one year yet you have a list this long and varied? Seems like you've crammed for a test and desperately spewed out answers. I love your enthusiam but my friend, before you annoint an album "having a big impact" or "life changing" put some more time in the craft first.

How can something have a big impact on you yet you totally stop caring about it? Even in a whole lifetime that's a difficult proposition. To be affected by something and to discard it in the space of only a year screams "tryhard" in the biggest possible way. I don't listen to Korn much these days but I still care about its impact. According to you some of these albums have left no emotional connection which makes me think you're just using them as bridges to reach that perfect "cool and knowledgeable" state (which explains how you've become an "expert" on black and death metal in only a year).

I'm guessing in a couple of months time black metal will be behind you and the next iteration of this list will feature the top 25 cool and elite doom albums that have "affected" you and will be "awe-inducing" despite you "not caring" about them.

This, this, and More THIS.

Before metal I was a hardcore Ac/Dc fan, it would literally be all I would listen to. now a days Im not that big of a fan but I still respect the impact it had on me. I even spin the records once a week or so, or even watch some live video. If you call An album life changing yet forget about it a week later, it wasn't really life changing.

Check Lokeda's list, it shows his life changing albums for mny genres.

Good albums on the list. Went through the comments, and you got shat on pretty damn hard, which served as a good laugh, but thumbs up for the albums (the list is all over the map though, they do have a point there). I've been listening for quite a few years now, and my progression of sound was nowhere near this fast.

Started with the classics (metallica, iron maiden, blah blah), moved into metalcore and similar stuff (shadows fall, killswitch engage, children of bosom), then moved into melodic death (insomnium, be'lakor, etc) and then death / technical (Death & Obscura), then I found doom (swallow the sun), then I spent time moving around the doom genre (death/doom, gothic, and funeral) and last year I spent the majority listening to black (Wolves in the throne room). Just recently I got into brutal death (Benighted). This is over the course of 4 or 5 years. Folk was in there somewhere too (Ensiferum)

If you are actually enjoying all this shit then good for you, but maybe the philosophy ... less is more or stop to smell the roses applies here. I still listen to all the shit I progressed with, just not a lot. I rarely throw on a Metallica album anymore, but if a song comes on the radio or my iPod, I still fucking belt out the lyrics.

I'm really not sure how this guy's listening habits are any of our business. Granted, he did choose to make this list public and thus invite comment, but it's a little condensending to analyze whether these albums "really" changed his life and if he's genuinely on the metal bandwagon for the long haul.

I make (play)lists for myself of music I've recently discovered or at the moment consider hot too, it's very handy to gather your thoughts like that and look back on them later. I've had to do some serious catching-up myself since getting back into metal properly, as I used to be into lighter stuff and entirely missed classics like Primordial (who I just properly discovered and fell in love with two nights ago) let alone Lurker of Chalice or something. Granted, you probably needn't make every list like this a public one, because as merely a bunch of random names it isn't very interesting to other people.

But then again, there's nothing wrong with try-hard posturing. We all do it to some extent - some more discreetly than others.

I'm really not sure how this guy's listening habits are any of our business.

Well, I assure they are. I face difficulty getting into full albums, and that bugs me a lot of times. I'm trying to overcome that, and even though I'm making some progress, I still feel that I always get a "vague" image of what the album resembles.
Thanks dude for thumbing up. My newer list is much better than this one.